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For four years I’ve blogged mostly about my personal genealogy in New England (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire), New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. I still will, can’t forget my own roots.

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

A Makeover for a 1660 No. Andover, Massachusetts Cemetery

The below cemetery has been visited, by me at least 15 times, as it is rather close by, and since I have ancestors there, my husband and I like to stroll through it. The first two photos show what we always saw, lots of trees. Imagine our surprise earlier this year, when we saw that a number of trees had been removed. Recently, we returned for another view of the cemetery. This is where the Anne Dudley Bradstreet memorial is. Note: Wikipedia's information for Andover has a lot of historical information as well as an impressive list of well-known former residents.

13 comments:

Hi, Barbara! I, too love to stroll thru cemeteries. There's just something peaceful about it and after a while you get to know the "people there" by walking by and reading their tombstones. It's just like visiting old friends!

I will definitely have to visit this cemetery-- maybe next year when we take our cross-country trip! I have lots of ancestors buried here, as you well know :-) Too bad about the broken headstones and the loss of the beautiful trees. Was there a reason they were removed??

One tree was dead and had dropped large branches during storms. The other tree was struck by lightening and split all the way to the ground. During a storm a few months later the top 20 feet came down on top of several gravestones. So both were taken down intentionally before nature took them down and did damage.

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